Stadium Minor League History:
Piedmont League
1938-1943
Carolina League
1945-1967, 1980-1994Current Status:Used for community and amateur baseball

What's Good:
DAP looks like once it was built it continued to grow and mutate on its
own until it became the present assemblage of oddly-shaped, seemingly haphazardly-placed
structures. The tidy but weary looking covered grandstand is surrounded
by little buildings, huts, and trailers housing the ticket office, the
concessions, and the team offices. The effect of this random construction
is quite charming and completely opposite the planned efficiency of modern
ballparks. A good variety of food (including, for the carnivores,
homemade barbecue) was available, as was lawn seating out beyond the outfield
walls. The movie Bull Durham (which featured DAP extensively) may
have made the ballpark seem to some like a Hollywood theme park of minor
league goofiness, but for those who know the minors, it was a real place,
and a real lot of fun.

What's Not So Good: For all its charms, the physical structure
of the grandstand seems unsubstantial and small compared to other stadiums
with the same capacity. And the thick black net all the way around
the infield was a drag.